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Ben Adida¹, Arjun Sanyal, Steve Zabak

¹Childrens Hospital Informatics Program, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Childrens Hospital Boston, Boston, MA.

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The Indivo health platform was redesigned with a new Application Programming Interface (API) to support third-party apps. This enables customizable patient health records through innovative, integrated features.

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Area of Science:

Health Informatics
Software Engineering
Personalized Medicine

Background:

The original Indivo personally controlled health record (PCHR) platform required enhancement to foster a broader application ecosystem.
A need existed for a flexible, web-based PCHR solution enabling feature integration.

Purpose of the Study:

To redesign the Indivo PCHR as a web-based platform with feature-level substitutability.
To develop the Indivo X Application Programming Interface (API) as the core interface for third-party applications.

Main Methods:

Redesigned Indivo as a web-based platform.
Developed the Indivo X API using rapid iterative development.
Focused on a minimal feature set derived from real-world requirements.

Main Results:

The Indivo X API is now in public stable beta.
The API facilitates the creation and integration of novel features by developers.
Enabled third-party contributors to build applications for the PCHR.

Conclusions:

The redesigned Indivo platform and its API support a rich ecosystem of third-party applications.
This fosters a customizable patient online record experience tailored to diverse needs.